Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Oil Holiday

This mural is on another room from the house I wrote about last week. On the left side there is the image of President Cardenas, oil workers and a map of Mexico filled with oil. The rest of the mural is how the artist expressed the choices that poor farmers face between Mexico or migrating to look for the “American Dream”.

On that date the then President (Lazaro Cardenas) took all the consessions and plants from the foreign companies, since they didn''t accept the labor unions, arguing they were losing money. After an investigation the Government found they were more profitable here that in their countries. When they didn't reach an agreement, they were ousted from the country and the Government formed its own Oil Company that still manages all of Mexico's Oil (Pemex).